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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Charities CHARITIES. A distribution to the poor of corn from Woolaston Grange was said to have been made from the time of the foundation of Tintern Abbey. 17 No dole was made after …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… for threshing were provided by Tidenham tenants of the lordship of Striguil. The livestock usually consisted of eight oxen … 109 strips and 42 a. in 74 strips respectively. 31 Winter corn and spring corn were chiefly grown, but rye, barley, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. Before the Conquest Brictric son of Algar held two hides in WOOLASTON within Twyford hundred. 6 Unlike other estates of the great thegn the manor of Woolaston probably never … the most valuable possession of the abbey, which received corn from the grange to the annual value of £22. 11 The …
A History of the County of Somerset
… from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. northwest of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in … fields and were repeatedly ordered to keep them out of the corn. 17 Part of the common reed bed by the moor had been …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woolbeding WOOLBEDING The parish, with an area of 1,950 acres and a population in 1931 of 288, is some 4 miles from north to south, with an average … Exc. e Rot. Fin. i, 9. Ibid. 1153. The ninth part of the corn from this land was worth 5 s. in 1340: Inq. Non. (Rec. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of Stamford, soke of Peterborough, N. division of the county … 1001 inhabitants. The tithes were commuted for land and corn-rents in 1796. Wootton (St. Martin) WOOTTON ( St. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it … the Tuscan order, supporting a panelled entablature. The corn-market is at the east end of Silver-street: the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Quarter Sessions: 1620s Thomas Pirkes and eight others of Fladbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/33/75 (1620) To the right worshipfull Sir [illegible] knight lord of the manour of [Fladbury?] [illegible] Whereas the berer hereof Katherine …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1650s Inhabitants of Claines. Ref.110 BA1/1/93/17 (1656) To the right worshipfull the justices of the [peace?] for the county of Worcester The humble certificate of the parishioners of …